UK ISPs expand Pirate Bay blockade

Several major UK ISPs have expanded their blockade against The Pirate Bay to deny a number of new IP addresses used by the file-sharing website.

Sky Broadband, Virgin Media and Talk Talk have all widened their block, although The Pirate Bay is thought to have added new ISPs at the weekend as a bypass and its hundreds of proxy sites are still accessible.

The UK High Court issued a ruling that forced the UK’s leading ISPs to censor the site, with Virgin, BT, Everything Everywhere, Sky Broadband, Talk Talk, BE and O2 all carrying out the instruction over the weeks that followed.

The Pirate Bay has been adding new IP addresses as regularly and the ISPs have been updating their block lists ever since.

A Pirate Bay insider told TorrentFreak that it has “enough new addresses to keep the providers busy for years to come” although the site points out: “It’s more of a statement than anything else as there are already dozens of proxy sites that allow users access to The Pirate Bay.”